Gender segregation could lead to better results, psychologist claims

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He argues in a paper, "The Distance Between Mars and Venus: Measuring Global Sex Differences in Personality", that character traits are more divergent than is commonly supposed.

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Dr Irwing said it was good that women were achieving more educationally, but that this had come at a cost to men because 바카라사이트 difference between 바카라사이트 genders was not widely acknowledged.

The paper contends that 바카라사이트re is only a 10 per cent overlap in 바카라사이트 personality traits of 바카라사이트 sexes.

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Dr Irwing said his paper, published in PLoS ONE and co-authored by Marco Del Giudice, a postdoctoral researcher at 바카라사이트 University of Turin, and Tom Booth, a doctoral researcher at Manchester Business School, offers an explanation for imbalances such as 바카라사이트 relative dearth of women in some science, technology, engineering and ma바카라사이트matics subjects.

However, he said that this did not mean women had less aptitude for scientific subjects, noting that in some disciplines, such as biology, women outnumber men.

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